Find the craic in Dublin with this Berlitz Pocket Guide, a concise, full-colour guide to Ireland's fast-paced capital. It tells you everything you need to know about the best places to visit in the city, from the party district Temple Bar, to the grand boulevard O'Connell Street and the ever-popular Guinness Storehouse. Handy maps on the cover flaps... more...

Meet Mark Graham, Conker Champion of Ireland, All-Ireland Bucket-Singing Champion and the sixth-best bog snorkeler in Ireland. Rejected by the banks as he looked to start on the journey to home ownership, Mark started in an altogether more interesting and exciting journey to attend three festivals a week for a year.In this entertaining roller-coaster... more...

CultureShock! Ireland cuts across the many stereotypes of Ireland and the Irish to offer enlightening insights into this fascinating land and its people. Discover a people whose lives, values and attitudes have been significantly affected by history, religion and politics. Avoid social and cultural pitfalls with the practical advice from this book... more...

The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Dublin is the perfect guide for exploring this exciting city, with clear maps and up-to-date coverage of all the best attractions. Discover Dublin's highlights with the guide's full colour introduction, showing everything from the historic Trinity College that houses the richly decorated Book of Kells... more...

VS. Pritchett, master of the short story, is also the most evocative of travel writers. First published in 1967, his portrait of Dublin - its past, politics and people, its grand mansions and curious corners - is as beguiling and eloquent as the city itself, as he writes of the Dublin he knew in the 1920s, of visits to Sean O'Casey and Yeats (brandishing... more...

The author of The Soong Sisters and China to Me turns her observant and discerning eye to the oft?troubled land of Ireland. In a magisterial combination of historical research and keen personal observation on the scene, Emily Hahn gives us a view of the whole of Ireland and its history, from the legends of the great kings and the heroes of myth... more...

Belfast is an exciting place: forget its troubled past; this is a city keen to welcome visitors and fulfil its potential as a vibrant European city. The city centre is a mixture of grandiose architecture, chic shops, bustling markets and stylish restaurants catering for a cosmopolitan capital city. The handy pocket-sized Great Breaks Belfast is packed... more...

Twenty-five years after his racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills , Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. Barich travels throughout his adopted country and meets the leading trainers and jockeys, the beleaguered bookies who work... more...

The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet towns and lively cities, the poetic and literary genius of so many of its citizens, its music and folklore, and its colorful and bloody history.What is also true is that the Irish people have in many ways changed in recent years, while retaining the scars... more...

he Skipper & Her Mate is a book about the people, boats and wildlife on the Irish waterways. Told from the perspective of a woman with only a week?s hire-boat experience learning to skipper a vintage timber cruiser, it is a journey through rivers and canals, and an apprenticeship in the ways of boating among a vibrant community of new and diverse people.... more...